The European Parliament has voted to extend legislation allowing tech companies to voluntarily scan users’ private messages for child sexual abuse material, despite a majority of lawmakers voting against the proposal. The ruling reinstates permissions for firms including Meta, Google,… Read More "A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway."
Two announcements on July 7, 2026, demonstrate the government’s determination to improve the level of cybersecurity within the UK. At the first annual lecture at Bletchley Park (May 27, 2026), Director of GCHQ Anne Keast-Butler defined the UK approach to… Read More "UK Government Rolls Out Agentic AI Defense Plan Alongside Industry Pledge"
The Hacker NewsJul 09, 2026AI Security / Zero Trust AI has changed how fast attacks move. Work that once took an attacker days now takes minutes. Using models like Mythos, attackers write tailored bait, pick targets, test what lands, and… Read More "AI Attacks Move in Minutes. Join This Webinar on Building a Defense That Keeps Up"
Experts found the attack familiar and consistent with past cloud attack techniques. “Strip off the AI branding and this is a cloud intrusion pattern we’ve been watching since at least 2018: SSH open to the internet, brute-force attempts, a commodity… Read More "Attack on Amazon Bedrock-linked AI gateway highlights new cloud security risk"
A new global anti-fraud operation against cybercrime has led to the arrest of over 5800 people and the interception of almost $300m in illicit assets. The operational phase of the crackdown effort, dubbed Operation First Light 2026, ran from January… Read More "Chinese-Funded Interpol Cybercrime Crackdown Leads to 5,800 Arrests"
Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI this week confirmed that over 12 million people were affected by a June data breach. The incident occurred on June 17 and involved unauthorized access to a system developed by KDDI as part of the email… Read More "12 Million Impacted by Data Breach at Japanese Telco KDDI"
Everyone seems to have announced a clearinghouse over the past few weeks. We did too. Ours is called Athena, and the main thing that sets it apart is that it was already real and running when we announced it —… Read More "Summer of Clearinghouses"
Over three quarters of cybersecurity leaders believe that the board level decision makers above them do not understand the cybersecurity risks associated with how their employees act in the workplace. That is according to a report by MetaCompliance, published on… Read More "75% CISOs Fear Executives Don’t Understand Cybersecurity Risks"
Dialog, the invite-only group cofounded by Peter Thiel, notified members and past event participants last week that a database containing their personal information had been breached, supposedly by a criminal hacker. But a WIRED analysis found that the files were… Read More "Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed"
Microsoft has begun rolling out patches for a Defender vulnerability known as RoguePlanet, roughly one month after a researcher published a zero-day exploit for it. Officially tracked as CVE-2026-50656, the vulnerability leverages a race condition, enabling an attacker to escalate… Read More "Microsoft Patches Defender ‘RoguePlanet’ Vulnerability"
